Indians 4 Social Change

Background The idea that vast amounts of India’s wealth lie in secretive bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere, and that if successfully repatriated and distributed through a hitherto undecided mechanism, it can solve nearly all of India’s problems with significant change left over, is one of the enduring notions of recent …

In an atmosphere where every news article greets us with stories of girls being tormented, raped, killed or treated like a doormat in one way or another, we can trust India’s “village republics” to bring in some good news from time to time.  Some villages in Rajasthan are not just …

Impressive Background The Indian railway system is one of the world’s largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km (71,000 mi) of track over a route of 65,000 km (40,000 mi) and 7,500 stations. In 2011, Indian Railways carried over 8,900 million passengers annually or more than 24 million passengers daily (roughly half of which were suburban passengers) …

The Statistics The world’s largest democracy, India, is going to the polls during April 2014. This happens every 5 years, and the country votes to select 543 members to its parliament. With a population of 1.2 Billion and over 750 million people in the age group of 15 to 69, the …

Yoga originated in India many millennia ago. India then shared this secret of health and well being with the west, and we now see instances of how the west is thanking India for this tremendous knowledge in tangible ways. The term yoga can be derived from either of two roots, …

Background: India is a country with a population of over a billion people.  The nation has ample necessity and opportunity to use more sustainable sources of energy. There are many places across the country where this is taking place.  One very prominent and inspirational example is in Tirumala. The Problem: …